Kurt Cobain 'cleaned toilets for Nirvana'

Krist Novoselic has said that Kurt Cobain cleaned toilets to fund the first Nirvana demo.

The band's bassist made the comments while speaking at Seattle's Experience Music Project at the opening of new exhibition Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses, The Guardian reports.

Novoselic said: "Here was a man who would never clean his kitchen or take out the garbage, or do those kind of chores. But Kurt Cobain was not a lazy person. We came to Seattle and we recorded a demo. Kurt Cobain earned the money for that.

"He was a janitor and he worked nights. Basically he cleaned toilets - that's how he paid for that demo. That's how hard he worked. He was a compelled artist, who excelled at every form he wanted to do."